A fat, green frog and his family sat on a water lily leaf; all the frogs hopped and bowed as they looked over its border, croaking all the time, as much as to say:
“Look at us; admire us! Are we not beautiful creatures?”
“Who are those children, are they idiots?” asked Kitty in an affrighted whisper.
“They are worse than idiots; they are vain,” sighed her guide.
The children were far too much occupied gazing at themselves to see any one else. They kept on murmuring lovingly to their reflections down in the water.
“Is that not a lovely smile?
Lips of coral, teeth like pearls,
Nose of truly Grecian style,
Eyes of sapphire, silken curls,”